Topic: Nikola Tesla - One & Only (Read 215 times)

Tesla had very innovative ideas. If he was listened I think it would have accelerated our technology by 20-50 years.

Yes Genius indeed,

We can only apply what he invented then to today and how his
discoveries and inventions have contributed to technology.

He achieved a lot and probably could have achieved a lot more
for example if JP Morgan hadnt pulled the plug on his plans for
a global communications network in 1900.

If that had been followed through how much more advanced
would our technology be?

Tesla = Guru ! The greatest man ever lived.. I can wrote here for days but I will only say that if his inventions and projects were published or just given to the community now we would have flying cars and teleportation.

If Tesla wasn't killed because and his researches wasn't stolen because I think this is the true behind the story, probably the electricity would be free now and teleportation available. And Elon Musk will have more knowledge and recurses for his experiments and products.   

I had heard about Nikola Tesla and His futuristic invention. He had contribute many work in the field of Physics.

And Talking about Electricity
Most of the people know Michale Faraday and Thomas Alba Edison in the field of Electricity.
But I think Nikola Tesla was the person whose name has to be in Top.
One of the greatest invention of his is Current.
Yes he invented current and now we are using this current in every work. It's now normal current. It and AC current. Before that their used to br DC current.
AC current were more powerful than DC current.

So Among all the invention he made. This is the greatest for me till now.

isnt the wireless charging already working today?
i have watched some videos about it. although i have not tried it, people are like saying it worked on their gadget.

teslas coil probably just need some revision to work that it electricute anyone.

No, because that electricity wasn't very strong or useful for anything but hurting everything alive after a prolonged exposure. This was never about "free" electricity, more like you getting zapped was an unfortunate side effect of brute forcing global communications by artificially making lightning. You do know every tiny little lightning in the world is picked up by sensors worldwide nowdays do you? This tower was just a crude version of it.

Because its so wasteful, it also happened to electrify YOU, as in YOUR BODY. Americans are even scared of using an electric heating element attached directly in the shower head, which by the way is known in South America as Corona shower. The little tingling that produces while you take a shower would be tame in comparison if this thing was deployed. And besides, that would have harmed the advancement of electronics, it was mutually exclusive with many more important developments.

It was sensible to stop it. As many great ideas he had, not everything he made was useful. In the late 19th century, before electronics it kinda made sense, but not soon after. Oh this would have also polluted the radio spectrum too... And if you are worried about radio waves crossing your body, this would have been many orders of magnitude more invasive. I suppose people would have to stand on wood all the time or something, as touching the ground would give you a "tingle" if this was in use...

So no, leave the fantasies aside and accept the reality; this particular idea was wrong but he refused to let it go. What remains a mystery is why the thing burned, possibly sabotage, possibly the nature of the dangerous thing. Still communications thru electricity discharges was not meant to be. And i just cannot imagine how much power each tower would have required anyway.

To Tesla we have to give the credit of the invention of alternating current, for generation and motor motion. Anything that spins transfers energy much more efficiently this way, and long copper wire distances are not a problem unlike with dc that required a power generator in every block. For good or worse Tesla was obsessed (among other things) with 3, This was the perfect number for him and everything had to be perfectly divisible by 3, hence you see 3 phases but not 4, while that is technically possible to make. Also he wanted households to use 60Hz/240v, and if you sum that gives 300, perfect.

(Turns out America does this, but they added a tap midway of the transformer coil to get 120v out and be able to use the already many electric devices made for the 120~100v DC system). Weird, but ok.

 his investions are not business wise. he only planned to distribute his wireless electricity for free. whose going to earn from that? this is why his project was not supported. its ideal but the investors weren't happy about it. the guy is genius that its been said he talks outside to aliens lol thag he uses doves to send messages. i watched his documentary.

We have free electricity, maybe?

But just like the conspiracy theories, if ever he made it there, oligarchs would come and chase him and won't allow it to happen.

Not sure about a "Death ray", but surely it would have been unhealthy to keep those things running around. If being close today to microwave radio towers (or powerlines) is considered harmful, just imagine with these things literally electrifying the whole world... Well it might be "Death" to all in slow motion i guess? I can imagine the comic book writers of the day had a lot of fun with such a real life inspiration. Yeah i know its low current but still, things like computers could probably not even work unless enclosed in faraday cages.

So i imagine he planned to time them in some way to "move it"?, doubt he would have pulled it off. Project Philadelphia?

Tesla was a genius, no doubt.

But he was also crazy. If you read his autobiography you'll see he had delusions of grandeur galore. Perhaps he was bipolar and a little bit of a schizo.

He's my role model nonetheless. I really identify with the man.


As for all the incredible stuff that's claimed, study it and occam's razor it. Don't just throw statements out with no knowledge and please show your work. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Edit: Tesla was listened to so the world we have today is a world that was influenced by Tesla.

Thanks to his amazing AC we have electricity everywhere.

If the world had a thousand or more of these towers as tesla hoped for it would have been used as a death ray. Think of the ability to move power around like caged or tame lightening.

world leaders would direct all the power from all the towers to any place they wanted to fry.

I have no doubt it could have been done with a lot of towers spaced just far or just close enough to work.

But the temptation to weaponize it is why it was not used all over the world.  BTW this is simply my opinion and I don’t have a lot of facts. One fact is it was sometimes called Tesla’s death ray in newspapers.

Simply google “tesla death ray”

Actually people confuse fantasy with history. What this tower would have done is a crude way of worldwide communication. Electricity does not travel efficiently by air. His previous experiments could light some bulbs wirelessly but start trying serious loads and it just can't cope with it, at the heavy cost of electromagnetic noise all over the planet.

It is a matter of efficiency, its just too inefficient. Even modern wireless charging devices work across short distances. When you use a Tesla coil and make a light arch touch the target, that is actually even better than current wireless methods, but, with the high voltage required its terribly inefficient.

You know what they say: raise enough voltage and "anything" is a conductor. Doesn't mean its an efficient one.

He was only awarded the patent for the invention of radio (probably because of the remote controlled boat the navy didn't care about) after his death. This tower, wasting tons of electricity, could have produced a spark that could be detected anywhere else on the planet. His idea was to have various of these around the world for communications. Because of its inefficiency, it happens that this kinda "static like" charges the whole planet in the process (not very environmentally friendly that). Also it charged ground, so your equipment won't have a safe path to discharge things into (no ground, 0 reference becomes non zero).

It was theorized that this could be used in the modern world for a very crippling attack into modern infrastructure. Thankfully nobody ever tried to reproduce the experiment, but there is a rumor the Soviets at some point tried but was detected.

This came because of an earlier experiment he did with a large Tesla coil where he discovered the time it took for the electromagnetic wave to travel all the planet and back, and carefully timing it to coincide with the return to send another one so they could be amplified. The little experiment is said to have charged things around, with trees giving sparks and some light bulbs spontaneously giving light, but you know what else happened? He overloaded the power generator of the whole town before managing to go much further. Because this was incredibly inefficient and wasteful compared to using a copper wire. AND he was the one who perfected transmission of electricity by wire, the alternating current motor and generator...

And yes he invented those peculiar high voltage coils which is why they have his name. Go into youtube and listen to pretty music played by them, i bet not even Tesla imagined they could be used to produce such perfectly reproduced sounds.

to me, Nikola tesla is a prodigy human...
if his great destroyed discoveries had remained until now then the progress of the world would now be 100 years faster. we have millions of geniuses today but none can his match innovation and genius.

Where is the confidence that this tower would actually work? As far as I know, it failed to be put into operation. Nevertheless, even if it turned out to be put into operation, why does no one think about the fact that it might simply not work properly?

Now technologies are developing very quickly, but even in this situation, the above-mentioned induction charging for small equipment is not very confident in coping with their tasks (I say, as the owner of such devices).

In that esenario the cables would be obsolet, all the electric things would be powered by the electric power in the atmosfere caused by masive tesla coils.


Just like the new phones charged by induction... but imagine having all the electric things that way.

Hi guys.


What do you think would of happen if Nikola Tesla was listened to and his inventions/improovements would be 1st priority for investors?

How would the world look today by your own POV?